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04/26 Susanne Ebbinghaus (Harvard University Art Museums) : "Beyond the Classical: Challenges of Mounting an Exhibition on 'Early Celtic' Art."

April 22, 2024
04/18 Joseph Medeiros (Performer) "The Odyssey: Beginnings; a performance of Homer in Greek"

April 13, 2024
04/11 Sara Myers (UVA): “Bodies and Boundaries: Narrative Patterns in Ovid’s Italian Rape Myths”

April 7, 2024
04/05 Mantha Zarmakoupi (Penn): "Making it Public: The Bouleuterion at Teos, Turkey"

April 1, 2024
04/05 Petra Creamer (Emory): "The Rural Side of Assyria: Imperial Control at the Site of Qach Rresh (Iraqi Kurdistan)"

March 29, 2024
04/04 John Bodel (Brown): "Roman Teamsters: Muliones (Muleteers) and the (Dis)organization of Land Transport in the Roman Empire"

March 29, 2024
03/29 Tate Paulette (North Carolina State): "In the Land of Ninkasi: A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia"

March 22, 2024
03/28 Jeremiah Coogan (Santa Clara University): "Bibliographic Identities: Text, Community, and Materiality in Late Antique Palestine"

March 22, 2024
03/28 Maghan Keita (Villanova) "Black Athena/Black Athenians"

March 22, 2024
03/22 Reed Goodman (ISAW): "The Environmental Context of Urban Destruction in Sumer: New Evidence from Early Dynastic Lagash, Tell al-Hiba"

March 15, 2024
03/21 Ralph Rosen (Penn) "Ps.-Longinus on Comedy and the Sublime"

March 15, 2024
Jordan Rogers (ANCH PhD 2021): Assistant Professor of History at NC State

March 2, 2024
03/14 Hyde Lecture: Lin Foxhall (University of Liverpool): "Political Regimes and the Rural Economies of Ancient Greece"

February 27, 2024
02/23 Delphine Tonglet (Metropolitan Museum of Art): “Bodies Rebuilt: Etruscan Cinerary Urns and Anthropomorphism”

February 19, 2024
02/22 Sarit Kattan Gribetz (Fordham): "A Queen in the Tomb of the Kings: An Ancient Monument and its Modern Legacy"

February 19, 2024
02/22 Rocco Palermo (Bryn Mawr) "The Making and Development of Imperial Landscapes in Mesopotamia. The View from the Erbil Plain in North Iraq"

February 18, 2024
02/15 Kim Bowes (Penn): "Wage, slavery"

February 9, 2024
02/08 Molly Zahn (Yale): "Time and Space in the Qumran Temple Scroll."

February 5, 2024
02/08: Richard P. Martin (Stanford) "Self-Fragmenting Artifacts and Comic Pragmatics"

February 5, 2024
02/02 Kate Grossman (North Carolina State University): "A Society Against the State in Prehistoric Cyprus? New Excavations at the Site of Makounta-Voules-Mersinoudia"

January 29, 2024
Hyde Visitor 2024: Lin Foxhall (University of Liverpool)

January 26, 2024
02/01 Brian Rose (Penn) "Recent Excavations at Phrygian Gordion"

January 26, 2024
01/18 Peter N. Singer (Einstein Center Chronoi, Berlin) "Living in the Moment – or Not? Past and Future Experience in Graeco-Roman Thought"

January 15, 2024
New Publication: Jane Sancinito: The Reputation of the Roman Merchant (2024)

January 7, 2024
Penn Faculty and Graduate Students at the AIA/SCS Annual Meeting

January 2, 2024
12/07 Emily Allen-Hornblower (Rutgers) & Nafeesah Goldsmith (COO at YFOF) "From our Classics and Incarceration series: Breaking the Silence: The Myth of Cassandra and the Voices of Incarcerated Women"

December 1, 2023
11/30 Cam Grey (Penn) "Locals, Leaders and the Reverberating Consequences of Disaster Intervention: Some Case Studies from the Late Roman World"

November 19, 2023
Eternal Soldier Program featured in Omnia

November 19, 2023
11/16 Katherine Blouin (University of Toronto) "Doing Classics on Indigenous Land"

November 10, 2023
11/09 Elena Isayev (Exeter): "Non-Return and Non-Arrival"

November 6, 2023
11/07 Elena Isayev (Exeter): "The Exile as Weapon"

November 6, 2023
11/03 Vinzenz Brinkmann (Goethe Universität Frankfurt): "The Colours of Ancient Greek Sculpture. Aesthetics and Narration"

October 27, 2023
11/02, 11/07, and 11/09 Elena Isayev (Exeter): The Penn Public Lectures: People Out of Place: Mediating Sovereignty and Power, Past and Present

October 27, 2023
10/26 Deven Patel (Penn) "New Directions in the Study of Indian Classical Humanities"

October 19, 2023
10/20 Kim Bowes (Penn): "Some Histories of the 90%"

October 18, 2023
10/19 Arsen Nisanyan (Harvard): "Kindling the song of Humanism: How one translation of Homer's Iliad changed intellectual life in Turkey"

October 14, 2023
10/16 Emily Hammer (Penn): "Spatial Ethnoarchaeology of Change in Mobile Pastoralist and Marsh-Dwelling Communities"

October 14, 2023
10/06 Josh Jeffers (Penn): "Time and Time-keeping in Mesopotamia"

September 29, 2023
10/05 Hérica Valladares (UNC Chapel Hill) "Women Writers from Pompeii: Epistolary Fictions in Roman Wall Painting"

September 29, 2023
09/28 Yael Fisch (Hebrew University & Katz Center): "Reading Unveiled: Between Paul and the Rabbis."

September 22, 2023
09/28 Matthew Leigh (Oxford) “Declamatory Fictions and the Crimen Maiestatis - Seneca, Controversiae 9.2”

September 22, 2023
09/22 Bernard Means (Virginia Commonwealth University): "Two Sarophagi and One Duck Head: Applications of 3D Technologies to the Archaeology of the Ancient Mediterranean World"

September 21, 2023
09/21 Sarah Murray (University of Toronto) “Gender and the Economy in Early Iron Age Greece”

September 16, 2023
Sun Renpeng (visiting scholar 2022-2023) appointed to the School of History at Fujian Normal University

September 10, 2023
09/14 Marek Wecowski (University of Warsaw) "Greek Political Patronage in the Archaic and Early Classical Period"

September 10, 2023
09/07 Ann Blair Brownlee (Penn) “From Orvieto to Philadelphia: Attic Black-Figure Vases in the University of Pennsylvania Museum”

September 1, 2023
06/21 Max Dietrich Dissertation Defense

June 16, 2023
06/20 - 22: Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values XII: Meanings and Values of the Sacred in Greco-Roman Antiquity

June 16, 2023
Gavin Blasdel (ANCH PhD '23): Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Groningen

May 31, 2023
Jordan Rogers (ANCH PhD '21): Visiting Assistant Professor and Post-doctoral Fellow in Classics at Hamilton College

May 25, 2023
Congratulations to the ANCH and CLST PhDs 2023!

May 15, 2023
04/27 Simcha Gross (Penn) "Good Fences Make Bad Neighbors: Communities on the Roman-Sasanian Frontier"

April 22, 2023
04/19 "Sphinx With the Sphinx: A Student Reading of Oedipus Tyrannos"

April 15, 2023
04/19 Laurie Pearce (UC Berkeley): Evidence for Judean Exiles in Babylonia, 572–474 BCE

April 15, 2023
04/17 Kolb Junior Fellows Annual Colloquium

April 15, 2023
Peter Satterthwaite SAS Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students 2023

April 15, 2023
Faculty Publication James Ker: “The Ordered Day”

April 15, 2023
04/14 Alice Mandell (Johns Hopkins University): "Craft Literacy as the Intersection of Specialized Knowledge in the Ancient Southern Levant"

April 13, 2023
04/14-15 CAS Graduate Student Conference: The Aftermath of Conflict. Responses to Human and Material Trauma in the Ancient World

April 12, 2023
Ruben Post appointed Lecturer at St Andrews University

April 8, 2023
04/13 Jeremy McInerney (Penn): “The Arta Polyandrion: Recreating Memory in the Landscape”

April 7, 2023
04/12 Ben Abbott Dissertation Defense: "Forging the Anchor: Antiochus I and the Creation of the Seleucid Empire"

April 7, 2023
04/07 Jordan Pickett (University of Georgia): "Climate Change Archaeology in the Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean: Problems and Prospects from Southwest Anatolia"

March 31, 2023
04/06 Laura Jansen (University of Bristol): “The Chemical Poetics of Anne Carson’s Euripides”

March 31, 2023
03/31 Ann Kuttner (Penn): "Telling a Griffin’s Tail: Ornament and Import at the Ara Pacis"

March 25, 2023
3/30: Jillian Stinchcomb (IAS): "Temporalities and Co-Production in the First Millennium"

March 25, 2023
03/30 Rhodessa Jones (The Medea Project) "Whose Classics?"

March 24, 2023
03/29 Gavin Blasdel Dissertation Defense: "Honors, Politics, and Community in Roman Athens"

March 24, 2023
03/23 Suzanne Marchand (Louisiana State) "480 (BCE): The Modern Making of a World-Historical Date"

March 18, 2023
03/22 Simcha Gross (Penn:) "The Aramaic Incantation Bowls"

March 18, 2023
03/16 Hyde Lecture John Ma (Columbia): Only Connect: Practicing Joined-Up Ancient History. On a Few Lines of Tacitus's Histories

March 7, 2023
Congratulations to Kyle West (ANCH), winner of the 2023 Penn Grad Talks Humanities Division

February 28, 2023
02/28 Asil Yaman (Villanova): "Excavations at Ancient Phoenix"

February 26, 2023
02/28 R.R.R. Smith (Oxford): "Care of the Past: Buildings and Statues at Aphrodisias in Later Antiquity, AD 200-600."

February 26, 2023
02/23 Andrew S. Jacobs (Harvard Divinity School): "How Do You Know and Ex-Jew in Late Antiquity if You See One?

February 22, 2023
02/24 Penn Grad Talk: Kyle West (ANCH) "Aging Virtuously: Cicero on Old Age, Disability, and Character"

February 19, 2023
02/23 Peter Struck (Penn) "Porphyry on Reason: How an Understanding of Cultural Difference Shapes an Understanding of Cognition"

February 19, 2023
02/22 Jodi Magness (UNC Chapel Hill): "Herodian Jerusalem"

February 19, 2023
02/16 Felipe Rojas (Brown) "Dance as History in the Roman Provinces"

February 10, 2023
02/09 Sasha-Mae Eccleston (Brown) "Mettle, Metal, and Medal or Autotheorizing Contemporary Classical Scholarship"

February 3, 2023
CfP CAS Graduate Conference: “The Aftermaths of Conflict: Responses to Human and Material Trauma in the Ancient World”

January 27, 2023
02/03 Katherine Kearns (Chicago): "Productive Countrysides, Favorable Conditions: On Rural Archaeologies and Climate Histories"

January 27, 2023
02/02 Heidi Wendt (McGill University): "'Among the Mature We Speak Wisdom': Gospel Composition & Early Pauline Letter Collections"

January 27, 2023
02/02 Joshua Hartman (Bowdoin) "Reconceptualizing Colonial Neo-Latin Epic"

January 27, 2023
01/27 Timothy Harrison (Toronto): Tayinat Archaeological Project

January 24, 2023
01/26 Andrea Kouklanakis (Bard High School Early College & Hunter College): "Expressions of Shame and Blame: A Comparative Approach to Homeric Poetry"

January 20, 2023
01/19 Kate Meng Brassel (Penn) "Autopsy of a Satirist "

January 13, 2023
01/12 Hanna Golab (Columbia and NYU) "Healing choruses and therapeutic landscapes of Roman Greece"

January 3, 2023
Hyde Visitor 2023: John Ma (Columbia)

January 1, 2023
Penn Graduate Students' Presentations at the AIA/SCS Meeting 2023

January 1, 2023
12/3 Center for Ancient Studies Annual Symposium: "Translation Projects Across the Ancient World"

November 25, 2022
12/01 Jeremy McInerney (Penn) "Perseus and Medusa at Eleusis (between Athens and Argos)"

November 25, 2022
11/19 "Eastern Mediterranean Gallery Opening"

November 12, 2022
11/18 Sam Holzman (Princeton): "Concealing Structural Innovation in Greek Architecture: Flat Arch Construction in the 3rd–Century BCE Stoa on Samothrace"

November 12, 2022
11/17 Penn Public Lectures on Classical Antiquity and the Contemporary World: Emily Greenwood (Harvard): “Remembering Differently: Classical Alibis in contemporary fiction from Fran Ross to Ocean Vuong”

November 12, 2022
11/15 Penn Public Lectures on Classical Antiquity and the Contemporary World: Emily Greenwood (Harvard): “Classics and the Grammar of Loss in the Black Feminist Tradition”

November 12, 2022
11/10-11/12 "Translating Science: 15th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age"

November 4, 2022
11/10 Penn Public Lectures on Classical Antiquity and the Contemporary World: Emily Greenwood (Harvard) “Tecumseh and the Shadow of Thucydides”

November 4, 2022
11/04 Jessica Lamont (Yale): "Ancient Greek Magic: Spells, Curses, Incantations"

October 28, 2022
11/03 Nandini Pandey (Johns Hopkins) "The Violence of Diversity: From the Roman Amphitheater to the Field of Classics"

October 28, 2022
10/28 Sailakshmi Ramgopal (Columbia): "‘Civis Romanus Sum': The Roman Businessmen of Sicily"

October 21, 2022
10/27 Tom Tartaron (Penn): "Kalamianos: 20 Years of Research at a Unique Mycenaean Harbor"

October 21, 2022
Jordan Rogers' (ANCH PhD 2021) Excavation Work in Pompeii Profiled

October 21, 2022
10/20 Jae Han (Brown University): “A Manichaean reads Polycarp: Making a Martyr of Mani in the Roman Near East”

October 14, 2022
10/20 Stephanie McCarter (Sewanee) "Ovid’s Cephalus and the Dangers of Mistranslation"

October 14, 2022
10/14 Margaret Andrews (Harvard): "The Reuse of Ancient Tuff Blocks in Early Medieval Buildings in Rome"

October 9, 2022
10/13 Jodi Magness (UNC) "More than Just Mosaics: The Ancient Synagogue at Huqoq in Israel's Galilee"

October 9, 2022
10/11 Reyhan Durmaz (Penn): Book Talk Saints, Memory & Cultural Exchange between Christianity and Islam

October 9, 2022
09/30 Glenn Schwartz (Johns Hopkins University): "2nd Millennium BC North Mesopotamian Urbanism: New Results from Kurd Qaburstan"

September 23, 2022
09/29 Mali Skotheim (Ashoka University) "Malabar on the Greco-Egyptian Stage: Indian Ocean Connections and the Charition mime (P.Oxy. 413)"

September 23, 2022
09/23 Emily Hammer (Penn): "Neighborhoods, Suburbs, and Urban Form at the Early Mesopotamian Cities of Ur and Lagash"

September 16, 2022
09/22 Craig Williams (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) “'Not a Song of Golden Greek': Laura Cornelius Kellogg and Native North American Writing on Greco-Roman Antiquity"

September 16, 2022
09/16 Patricia Kim (NYU): Between Portraits and Portrayals: Figuring Royal Women in the Hellenistic World

September 13, 2022
09/15 Ava Shirazi (Haverford) "Painting and Pose in Aeschylus and Beyond "

September 9, 2022
09/08 Anna Uhlig (UC Davis) "Papyri without the Past: New Approaches to Cartonnage Fragments"

August 29, 2022
Congratulations PhDs 2020, 2021, and 2022!

May 22, 2022
Gavin Blasdel awarded Fulbright Fellowship

May 20, 2022
04/29-30 Graduate Conference Borders and Boundaries in the Ancient World

April 23, 2022
04/22 Meg Andrews (Harvard): "The Reuse of Ancient Tuff Blocks in Early Medieval Buildings in Rome"

April 15, 2022
04/21: Joy Connolly (American Council of Learned Societies): "Collaborator, Translator, Constructor"

April 10, 2022
04/19 Joy Connolly (American Council of Learned Societies): "The Skills of World-Making"

April 10, 2022
04/15 Jeanne Capelle (Ecole Normale Supérieure): "Building the Post-Classical Theater: Continuity and Change in Ionian Scenic Space"

April 10, 2022
04/14 Joy Connolly (American Council of Learned Societies): "Public Matters: Prompts for the Study of Ancient Cultures"

April 10, 2022
Penn Public Lectures on Classical Antiquity and the Contemporary World

April 10, 2022
04/08-09 Center for Ancient Studies 12th Annual Symposium: The Future of Ethnoarchaeology

April 2, 2022
04/07 Krista Dalton (Kenyon College): “Cultivating Rabbinic Expertise at the Dinner Table”

April 2, 2022
04/07 Lin Foxhall (Liverpool): "Farming, Food and Diet: Living On (and Off) the Land in Early Greece"

April 2, 2022
04/06 Sophus Helle (Freie Universität Berlin): ""Gilgamesh and the Translation of Philological Crises"

April 2, 2022
04/01 Jennifer Stager (Berkeley): "Tektōn: Doctor Kits and Artist Tools in Ancient Greek Art and Medicine"

March 29, 2022
03/31 Catherine Morgan (Oxford): Hyde Lecture 2022 "Worship and Society in Northwestern Greece - Reflections from the Archaeological Record"

March 27, 2022
Max Dietrich awarded Dissertation Completion Fellowship

March 27, 2022
Greg Callaghan (ANCH PhD '20) Assistant Professor of Classics, Union College

March 24, 2022
ANCH welcomes Catherine Morgan (Oxford) as Hyde Visitor 2022

March 23, 2022
03/26 Conference: "Hermogenes and Hellenistic-Roman Temple Building in Greece and Asia Minor: Messon – Teos – Magnesia – Sardis"

March 18, 2022
03/25 Mei-An Tsu (Museum of Fine Arts Boston): "Color and the Boston MFA Athena Parthenos Polychrome Project"

March 18, 2022
03/24 Shivaike Shah (Khameleon Productions): "Uprooting Medea"

March 18, 2022
03/18 Deniz Berk Tokbudak (Ankara University): "Flavian Building Program in Asia Minor: The Age of Vespasian"

March 16, 2022
03/17 Katell Berthelot (CNRS / Aix-Marseille University): ‘Know Before Whom You Are Standing!’ The Religious Dimension of Jurisdiction in Rabbinic Writings"

March 13, 2022
03/17 Catherine Michael Chin (UC Davis) "The Future Is Very Far Away and We Have Not Arrived There Yet: Early Christian Afterlives and Classical Receptions"

March 13, 2022
CFP: CENTER FOR ANCIENT STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE: "BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES IN THE ANCIENT WORLD "

February 25, 2022
03/04 Evan Jewell (Rutgers): "Wayfinding Towards Subaltern and Shared Topographies of the Roman City"

February 25, 2022
03/03 Carolina López-Ruiz (Ohio State University) "Phoenician religion and its adaptations: between resilience and innovation"

February 25, 2022
02/24 Cam Grey (Penn): "Seismic Riskscapes of the Late Fourth Century CE"

February 20, 2022
02/18 Musa Kadıoğlu (Ankara): "The New Investigation at Teos in Ionia"

February 11, 2022
02/17 Joseph Lowry (Penn): "Aspects of Qur’anic Law-making"

February 11, 2022
02/17 Sanchita Balachandran (Johns Hopkins University) "So-and-so Made This: A Research Methodology for Finding and Being with the Potters and Painters of Ancient Athens"

February 11, 2022
Jordan Rogers (ANCH PhD ’21): SCS Dissertation Spotlight

February 7, 2022
02/10 Wesley Hanson (Penn): "Empire and Language in Pliny the Elder's Natural History"

February 5, 2022
02/03 Clifford Ando (University of Chicago) "Roman Law and Republican Domination"

January 31, 2022
CfP: Center for Ancient Studies Graduate Student Conference: "Borders and Boundaries in the Ancient World "

January 22, 2022
01/27: Virginia Closs (University of Massachusetts Amherst) "Before and After: Cycles of Destruction and Renewal in Martial’s Rome"

January 12, 2022
01/20: Mario Telò (Berkeley) "Aristophanic Gyno-Futures: Reproduction Transness Disability"

January 12, 2022
ANCH students and recent graduates at the AIA/SCS Annual Meetings

January 5, 2022
12/09 Sukaina Hirji (Penn) "White Blindness, and Knowing One's Limits in Plato's Alcibiades"

December 4, 2021
12/02 Eric Orlin (University of Puget Sound): "The Carmen Saeculare: Prayer and Performance"

November 26, 2021
11/19 Seth Estrin (University of Chicago): "The Figure of the Slave on Classical Attic Funerary Monuments"

November 13, 2021
11/18 Sheila Murnaghan (Penn): "Champion of History, Inveterate Liar: Biographies of Heinrich Schliemann for Young Readers"

November 13, 2021
11/17 14th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (Online): Loss

November 13, 2021
11/12 Brian Rose (Penn): "Provenance Research from the Ancient Mediterranean to the 21st Century"

November 7, 2021
11/12 Müge Durusu-Tanrıöver (Bilkent University): "And All the Gods Ran Before Me: Representing Mortals and Deities in Hittite Art"

November 7, 2021
11/11 Mathias Hanses (Penn State University) "'I Rode to Rome at Night’: The Ancient Mediterranean World in the Early Writings of W. E. B. Du Bois"

November 7, 2021
11/05 Carrie Atkins (Toronto): "Re-survey of the Anchorage at Maroni Tsaroukkas, Cyprus: Defining and Viewing a Late Bronze Age Coastscape"

November 2, 2021
11/4 Emily Wilson (Penn): "Iliad 24: A Reading from My Translation"

November 1, 2021
10/29 Mantha Zarmakoupi (Penn): "The Blue Marble of Greek Architectural History: Delos and the Delos Symposia"

October 23, 2021
10/28 Matthew Larsen (University of Copenhagen) and Mark Letteney (University of Southern California): ""Documents, Places, and Practices of Women's Incarceration in Antiquity"

October 23, 2021
10/28 Christopher Parmenter (Penn): "Frank M. Snowden, Jr., Race, and the Ancient Roots of American Modernity"

October 23, 2021
10/22 Michael Koortbojian (Princeton): "Athenion of Maronea (Pliny, Historia Naturalis 35.143) and the Painting of His Time."

October 19, 2021
10/21 Solange Ashby (UCLA): "Isis, Mistress of the Southern Lands"

October 16, 2021
10/21 Simcha Gross (Penn): "The Rise of the Rabbis"

October 16, 2021
10/18 Lynn Meskell (Penn): "Banking on Petra: Archaeological Adventurism and the Politics of Preservation"

October 16, 2021
10/07 Ari Bryen (Vanderbilt): "The Trials of Aelius Aristides"

October 2, 2021
10/01 Mantha Zarmakoupi (Penn): "Delos adelos: The Maritime Landscape of Delos"

September 29, 2021
09/30 Mary K. Farag (Princeton Theological Seminary): "Sacred Things Between Law and Justice in Late Antiquity: Two Case Studies"

September 25, 2021
09/30 Amy Lewis (Penn): "Aristophanes vs. Phrynichus in the 'Frogs’”

September 25, 2021
09/24 Lauren Ristvet and Sarah Linn (Penn): "Walkthrough of the 'Stories We Wear' Exhibition"

September 17, 2021
09/23 Ralph Rosen (Penn): "Hipponax, Iambic Laughter and the Question of Genre"

September 17, 2021
09/21 "The Stories We Wear" Student Gala

September 17, 2021
09/16 Brian Rose (Penn): "Reconsidering the Frieze on the Arch of Constantine"

August 27, 2021
Bryn Ford (ANCH '21): Visiting Instructor at Purdue University

July 22, 2021
Danielle Perry selected in the inaugural class of Presidential Ph.D. Fellows

May 4, 2021
05/10 Bryn Ford (ANCH) Dissertation Defense: Unstable Territory: Roman-Era Elites and the Production of the Italian Countryside

April 29, 2021
Jordan Rogers (ANCH '21) Visiting Assistant Professor at Carleton College

April 23, 2021
04/23 Holly Pittman - Steve Tinney (Penn): "The Warrior's Return: Iconography and Power Between Early Dynastic Lagash and Nippur"

April 19, 2021
04/23 Lana Radloff (Bishop's University): "Sailing the Not So Wine-Dark Sea: Small-World Maritime Networks at Ancient Miletus"

April 17, 2021
Campbell Grey Awarded the Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching

April 17, 2021
04/15 Annette Yoshiko Reed (NYU): "Demonology and Popular Piety in Second Temple Judaism and Beyond."

April 13, 2021
04/15 Sarah Derbew (Stanford): "A Language for Blackness"

April 13, 2021
04/14 Workshop Series: Work/Life: Subjectivities, Institutions, and Human Resources in the Roman World

April 13, 2021
04/09 Jordan Rogers (ANCH) Dissertation Defense: Vicinitas in Urbe: Neighborliness and Urban Community in Republican Rome

April 3, 2021
04/09 J. Theodore Peña (Berkeley): "Approaches to the Characterization of Household Artifact Assemblages at Pompeii"

April 3, 2021
04/08 Donald Lavigne: Donald Lavigne (Texas Tech University): "Old Media, and New: Early Greek Epigram"

April 3, 2021
04/02 Matthew Harpster (Koç University): "Reconstructing a Maritime Past"

March 26, 2021
04/01 Katharina Volk (Columbia) "Pythagoreanism, Magic, Child Sacrifice (and Other Pastimes of Late Republican Roman Senators)"

March 26, 2021
Danielle Kellogg (ANCH PhD 2005) appointed Christopoulus Chair in Ancient Greek History, University of Cincinnati

March 24, 2021
03/25 Sheila Ager (Waterloo): Hyde Lecture: Power and Precarity: Murdering Royal Women in the Hellenistic Age

March 17, 2021
03/19 Kilian Mallon (Stanford University): Legal History Methodologies and Late Roman Archaeology

March 13, 2021
03/18 Judith Kaplan (Penn): "The Nineteenth-Century Debate About Color"

March 13, 2021
03/12 Andrew Donnelly (Loyola University Chicago): Monastic Dining and the Roman Aristocratic Meal

March 8, 2021
Workshop Series: Work/Life: Institutions, Subjectivities, and Human Resources in the Roman World

March 5, 2021
03/04 Melissa Mueller (University of Massachussettts, Amherst): "In the Bardo with Tithonos: Reading Sappho with Homer and Eve Sedgwick"

February 26, 2021
03/02 Carlo Ginzberg and Francesca Trivellato (UCLA and Princeton): "Microhistory and Global History"

February 26, 2021
Elsie Phare Fellowship and Masciantonio Fellowship for the Post-Baccalaureate Program in Classical Studies

February 23, 2021
02/25 Lisa Mignone (ISAW): "Iuno Loci: Juno at Home, Rome at War"

February 22, 2021
02/19 Elizabeth Greene (Brock University): Ephemeral Heritage: Boats, Migration, and the Central Mediterranean Passage

February 11, 2021
02/18 Emily Wilson (Penn): "Why Read Homer?"

February 11, 2021
02/11 Lauren H. Braun-Strumfels (Raritan Valley Community College) and Kim Bowes (Penn): "Humanities and the Community College: Lessons for Classical Studies"

February 5, 2021
02/11 Jordan Rogers (ANCH): "Public Shaming and Social Policing in Republican Rome"

February 5, 2021
CfA: Center for Ancient Studies 2021 Graduate Workshop:: "Going Public: Writing and Speaking for Public Audiences"

January 29, 2021
02/04 Elizabeth Urban (West Chester University): "Islamic Origins from the Perspective of Enslaved Persons: A View from Below."

January 29, 2021
02/04 Steven Smith (Hofstra University): "The Descendants of Aeneas in New Rome: Epigrams on the Fall of Troy from the Cycle of Agathias"

January 29, 2021
01/28 Amy Russell (Brown): "Microcosm, macrocosm, and the question of scale in the ancient Roman city"

January 19, 2021
01/21 Karen Ní Mheallaigh (Johns Hopkins): “The ancient glass imaginary”

January 19, 2021
Sheila Ager (Waterloo) Hyde Lecturer Spring 2021

January 19, 2021
Papers by ANCH graduate students and recent graduates at the SCS Annual Meeting 2021

January 1, 2021
12/03 Kate Meng Brassel (Penn): "Epictetus, Caesar, and the Animals"

November 28, 2020
11/20 Irene Gibbing Plantholt (Freie Universität Berlin): "Struggling with Death in Akkadian Sources"

November 16, 2020
11/19 Jack Tannous (Princeton): "The Simple and the Learned: Thinking about Late Antique Religious Worlds"

November 16, 2020
11/19 Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton): "The Affects of Manumission: Racial Melancholy and Roman Freedpersons"

November 16, 2020
11/16 Workshop Series Work/Life: Institutions, Subjectivities, and Human Resources in the Roman World

November 10, 2020
11/12 Sandra Blakely (Emory): "Testing the edges: digital approaches to maritime networks"

November 6, 2020
11/05 Greg Woolf (University of London): "Locating Resilience in Ancient Urban Networks"

October 30, 2020
Mary Caldwell (Penn): "Musical Grammar and Lyrical Learning: Cato’s Distichs and Medieval Latin Song"

October 23, 2020
Workshop Series: Work/Life: Institutions, Subjectivities, and Human Resources in the Roman World

October 21, 2020
10/22 Eliza Gettel (Villanova) "Maintaining a Common Polity: Shared Cult in the koina of the Imperial Greek Mainland"

October 17, 2020
10/17 Paul Verhelst (Penn): "Knowledge that Fits in the Palm of Your Hand—Analyzing 5,000-Year-Old Seeds"

October 10, 2020
10/16 Kim Bowes (Penn): "Materiality and Temporality in the Other Roman Architecture"

October 10, 2020
10/16 Beverly Goodman (University of Haifa): "Ancient Tsunamis at Caesarea Maritima: Evidence from Coastal and Underwater Geoarchaeological Research"

October 10, 2020
10/15 Nyasha Junior (Temple): "But You’re Not a Historian: Reception History in Biblical Studies"

October 10, 2020
Workshop Series: Work/Life: Institutions, Subjectivities, and Human Resources in the Roman World

September 29, 2020
10/08 Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos (Amherst College): 'Remember Me in the Holy Place': Shared Practice at Multireligious Pilgrimage Sites in the Late Antique East."

September 26, 2020
10/08 Elena Isayev (Exeter): "Ancient Wandering and Permanent Temporariness"

September 26, 2020
10/01 Cam Grey (Penn): "Localizing Risk in the Late Roman World"

September 26, 2020
09/24 Phiroze Vasunia (UCL): “After Babel: Reading the Literatures of the Roman Empire”

September 12, 2020
09/17 Jeremy McInerney (Penn) "Eos: Africana Receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome"

September 5, 2020
09/10 Ross Kraemer (Brown): "Religious Practices of Jews in the Late Antique Mediterranean: The Evidence from Recalcitrant Sources"

September 5, 2020
09/10 Paula Fredriksen (Boston University): “The Many Gods of Ancient Jewish ‘Monotheism’”

September 5, 2020
Ching-Yuan (Dwight) Wu (ANCH'18) Peking University

August 1, 2020
Congratulations, Dr. Cynthia Susalla, Dr. Ruben Post, Dr. Ryan Pilipow, and Dr. Gregory Callaghan!

May 18, 2020
Greg Callaghan awarded The President's and Provost's Honor for Developing New Initiatives in Graduate & Professional Student Life

May 7, 2020
Jane Sancinito (ANCH '18) UMass Lowell

April 2, 2020
Gavin Blasdel awarded Dissertation Research Fellowship

March 31, 2020
Jordan Rogers awarded Dissertation Completion Fellowship

March 31, 2020
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, all events have been canceled for the remainder of the spring semester

March 31, 2020
CANCELED 3/5 Andrea Augenti (University of Bologna): "What do we talk about when we talk about late antique cities? An archaeological point of view"

March 1, 2020
3/4 Gregg E. Gardner (University of British Columbia): ""Lighting the Way: Doorways into the Late-Antique Jewish Home"

March 1, 2020
3/3 Renata Holod (Penn): "Uses of the Past: From the Pyramids to Taq-i-Bostan"

March 1, 2020
02/29 12th Annual Center for Ancient Studies Graduate Conference "Movement, Mobility, and the Journey: Ancient Actions and Perspectives”

February 22, 2020
02/28 Shinu Anna Abraham (St. Lawrence University): "Materializing Motion Across Maritime Spaces: Indian Ocean Glass Beads in the First Millennia BCE/CE"

February 22, 2020
02/27 Kim Bowes (Penn): "Beyond GDP: Getting by in the Roman world”

February 21, 2020
02/21 Janet Jones (Bucknell): "Reflecting History: Glass Vessels from Gordion"

February 18, 2020
02/20 PSCO Melissa Cradic and Liana Brent: “Tales from the Crypt: Interactions between the Living and the Dead in the Ancient Mediterranean.”

February 10, 2020
02/20 Melissa Lane (Princeton): "On the appellation ‘Thirty Tyrants’: a paradox and an anachronism"

February 10, 2020
02/13 Maria Xanthou: "A tale of two resilient cities: regional interaction of population, environment, and resources in Olynthus and Potidaea"

February 9, 2020
02/06 Maren Niehoff (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): "Philo of Alexandria on Allegory and Metaphor."

February 1, 2020
01/31 Gretchen Meyers (Franklin and Marshall): "Aspects of Communal Identity at the Etruscan Sanctuary of Poggio Colla (Vicchio)"

January 27, 2020
01/30 Johanna Hanink (Brown): "Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the Athenian funeral orations"

January 27, 2020
01/23 Mary Bachvarova (Willamette): Toponymic Epiclesis in the Iliad and its Festival Performance Setting

January 18, 2020
01/16 Hans Beck (Münster): Kadmos in Sparta

January 11, 2020
ANCH Graduate Student Papers at the SCS/AIA Annual Meetings (Washington, DC, January 2-5, 2020)

December 29, 2019
Ruben Post (ANCH) appointed Leventis Senior Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews

December 20, 2019
12/6 Mantha Zarmakoupi (Penn): "Roman Landscape: Between Conceptual and Perceptual Space"

December 3, 2019
Kelcy Sagstetter (ANCH ’13, US Naval Academy): Podcast on “The Punic Wars and Experiential Learning”

December 1, 2019
12/6 Evi Margaritis (Center for Hellenic Studies/ The Cyprus Institute): "Farming the Land in the 1st Millennium BC: Urban and Rural Centers in Classical and Hellenistic Greece"

November 30, 2019
12/5 Jennifer Barry (University of Mary Washington): "A Bad Romance: Domestic Violence in Late Antiquity"

November 30, 2019
12/5 Nina MacLaughlin: "A reading and discussion of Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung (FSG/FSG Originals), a re-telling of Ovid's Metamorphoses told from the perspective of the female figures transformed"

November 30, 2019
Suzanne Lye (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): "To Starve and To Curse: A Woman’s Anger in Ancient Greek Literature and Magic"

November 15, 2019
Sheila Ager named Hyde Lecturer for Spring 2020

November 10, 2019
11/15 Yannis Kalliontzis (Center for Hellenic Studies/École Française d’Athènes): "The Shrine of the Valley of the Muses: An Archaeological, Historical and Literary Topos Revisited"

November 10, 2019
11/21 Mark Usher (University of Vermont): "Comparative Epic: Classics Goes Global"

November 9, 2019
CfP: Center for Ancient Studies Graduate Conference "Movement, Mobility, and the Journey: Ancient Actions and Perspectives”

November 9, 2019
11/8 Penelope Davies (UT Austin): "Adaptive Reuse: On Transforming Buildings in Ancient Rome"

November 2, 2019
11/7 Emily Wilson (Penn): "Iliad Translation In Progress: A Reading"

November 2, 2019
11/4 Joseph Howley (Columbia): "Enslaved labor and the ancient Roman book"

November 2, 2019
10/31 Barbara Graziosi (Princeton): "Sappho, Networked"

October 26, 2019
10/24 Maria Doerfler (Yale) & Marjorie Lehman (Jewish Theological Seminary, Katz Center): “Parents and Children in Christian and Jewish Antiquity”

October 18, 2019
10/24 Caitlin Gillespie (Brandeis) & Jeffrey Ulrich (Rutgers), "Teaching Race and Ethnicity in the Ancient World"

October 18, 2019
10/17 Johannes Haubold (Princeton): The Development of Chaldean Philosophy between the Fifth Century BCE and the Second Century CE

October 12, 2019
10/03 Ellen McLaughlin (Barnard): 3,000 Years of the 1,000 Yard Stare: The Experience of War, from the Ancient Greeks to Us"

September 28, 2019
10/02 Ellen McLaughlin: "Penelope"

September 28, 2019
Summer Teaching: Jordan Rogers

September 22, 2019
Summer Research: Ryan Pilipow

September 22, 2019
Summer Research: Tim Warnock

September 22, 2019
09/26 Gonca Dardeniz Arikan (Buffalo University): "Innovation or Imitation: Alloying Practices in North-Central Anatolia during the Bronze Age"

September 22, 2019
09/26 Jeremy McInerney (Penn): "The Pride of Halikarnassos"

September 22, 2019
09/20 Mark Munn (Pennsylvania State University) "Excavating Panakton: An Athenian Fortress on the Attic-Boiotian Frontier"

September 14, 2019
09/19 Tom Palaima (University of Texas at Austin) "The Troubles with Achilles: Problems with Using the Iliad as a Testament to War Trauma and an Instrument in its Treatment"

September 14, 2019
09/13 Stefan Feuser (University of Pennsylvania and University of Kiel) "The South Market Basilica in Miletus. On the agglomeration of urban spaces in the Roman Imperial Period"

September 8, 2019
09/12 Reyhan Durmaz and Simcha Gross (Penn): "Matrimony and Magic in Late Antiquity"

September 8, 2019
09/12 Joseph Farrell (Penn): "Classics in China: Reflections on a First Visit"

September 8, 2019
09/10 Michael Danti (Penn): "Safeguarding Cultural Heritage: Mitigating the Impact of Cultural Cleansing, Genocide, and Warfare in Syria and Iraq"

September 8, 2019
09/05 Kresimir Vukotic (Catholic University of Croatia): "Saving the Environment: the Tiber and Roman Mythology"

September 8, 2019
Greg Callaghan (ANCH), 2019-2020 President of GAPSA

September 8, 2019
Rose Award for Undergraduate Research: Victoria Greene

May 7, 2019
Greg Callaghan (ANCH) 2019-2020 Graduate Fellow for the Wolf Humanities Center

April 30, 2019
Greg Callaghan (ANCH): "If You Can't Walk the Walk, Then Talk the Talk: Status and International Relations in the Hellenistic World"

February 14, 2019
Ryan Pilipow (ANCH) CTL Graduate Fellow for Teaching Excellence

May 14, 2018
Kyle Mahoney (ANCH '16) Visiting Assistant Prof at Swarthmore

May 14, 2018
Jake Morton (ANCH '17) joining faculty at Carleton

May 14, 2018
A Roman Battle, Then a Classics Lesson

March 23, 2018
Susanna Elm of Berkeley named HYDE Lecturer for 2018

March 16, 2018
Meet a Member: Ching-Yuan (Dwight) Wu,The American School of Classical Studies at Athens

February 13, 2018
The New Greek Oligarchy

January 10, 2018
More great Balkan reporting from alum Alex Clapp

September 28, 2017
Eyal Meyer (2017)

June 6, 2017
Jake Morton (2017)

June 5, 2017
Ruben Post, Doreen Canaday Spitzer Associate Fellow & Greg Callaghan, Kolb Junior Fellow

March 22, 2017
IRON-AGE CIVILIZATION KNOWN FOR RAUCOUS MUSIC HAD A MELLOW SIDE

November 21, 2016
More excellent Balkan reporting from Penn classics alum, Alex Clapp

September 14, 2016
Jane Sancinito and Jordan Rogers Romanian Excavation

August 31, 2016
Bryn Ford, American Academy in Rome, 2016 Summer Research

August 4, 2016
Gavin Blasdel, 2016 Summer Research

July 28, 2016
Morgan Condell, Sicily Research, Summer 2016

July 28, 2016
Jake Morton, TA for Penn-in-Athens Program, Summer 2016

July 28, 2016
A Chinese coin at Corinth?

July 25, 2016
Penn/Leiden Volume: "Valuing Landscape in Classical Antiquity" Now Available

July 25, 2016
Professor Renata Holod, History of Art: Upcoming Lectures

May 3, 2016
JEREMY MCINERNEY, PENN MUSEUM LECTURE, "WARRIOR WOMEN: AMAZONS AND THE GREEK IMAGINATION"

May 3, 2016
Fellowships! Ruben Post & Bill Beck

March 14, 2016
Cam Grey presented at Temple University

March 11, 2016
Joe Farrell, "Explaining Texts through Texts: Comparing Methods" @ the American Academy in Rome

March 7, 2016
BETWEEN ANCIENT DIVINATION AND MODERN INTUITION: A COGNITIVE HISTORY

February 12, 2016
Cynthia Damon Publishes "Studies on the Text of Caesar's Bellum civile"

February 12, 2016
Cynthia Damon Publishes "Caesar' Civil War"

January 25, 2016
James Ker Awarded The SAS Weiler Fellowship

January 4, 2016
Professor Tartaron receives AIA book award

November 10, 2015
ANCH Graduate Student Jake Morton on Penn's Vjosë River Valley Archaeological Project

September 15, 2015
Joseph Farrell named to Watkins Chair in the Humanities

August 17, 2015
Brian Rose honored by AIA

January 9, 2015
Faculty publications: Joseph Farrell, "Vergil, Aeneid 5"

December 5, 2014